Composr Supplementary: Editing Site-Wide Privileges in Composr

Written by Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting

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Choosing a privileges section to manage

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I've previously written about creating a new usergroup but usually when you are creating a new usergroup you will want to customise the permissions for all of the members within the new group. While you can copy the setting from another group when creating the usergroup, often this won't be sufficient because if those permissions were sufficient, you'd usually just put users in that group rather than creating a new one! This is how to quickly go through all of the permissions for all of your usergroups and tailor them to your needs.

Composr boasts a detailed section to edit all of the privileges associated to all of your usergroups. This is titled "Privileges" and can be found in the Security section of the Admin Zone. Once you arrive on the first global privileges screen you are shown a menu of different sections you can tailor the permissions in. These include:

Submission – Deals with what areas each usergroup can submit content to

General settings – covers a range of settings such as bypassing post flood control among others

Members, Usergroups and forums – Covers a range of options such as the right to delete their own account and close their own topics

Staff actions – Covers whether users can access the site when closed and which staff notifications they see

Comcode – Which usergroups can use various Comcode options

Feedback – Whether users can comment or rate content

Points – Who can give points and who can they give them to

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Setting privileges

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There are a number of other sections which deal with specifics such as Polls, Banners and Newsletters but the majority of the options are in the first list of options. Many of the options are extremely straight forward in what they refer to. However in the Submission settings there are "Submit low-impact (low visibility) content" and "Submit mid-impact (medium visibility) content" which can be confusing if you don't have knowledge of the system.

Within this and some other sections where these options are not always really clear there is a Help bubble which will explain what the option will do. This is indicated by a question mark after the title text for each option.

Make sure you take note of the options you are setting because if these are set incorrectly you can lock members out of your site.